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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dark Companion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is an orb that mocked the lore of sages <br> Long time with mystery of strange unrest; <br>The steadfast law that rounds the starry ages <br> Gave doubtful token of supreme behest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they who knew the ways of God unchanging, <br> Concluded some far influence unseen -- <br>Some kindred sphere through viewless ethers ranging, <br> Whose strong persuasions spanned the void between. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And knowing it alone through perturbation <br> And vague disquiet of another star, <br>They named it, till the day of revelation, <br> "The Dark Companion" -- darkly guessed afar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when, through new perfection of appliance, <br> Faith merged at length in undisputed sight, <br>The mystic mover was revealed to science, <br> No Dark Companion, but -- a speck of light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No Dark Companion, but a sun of glory; <br> No fell disturber, but a bright compeer; <br>The shining complement that crowned the story; <br> The golden link that made the meaning clear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Dark Companion, journeying ever by us, <br> Oh, grim Perturber of our works and ways -- <br>Oh, potent Dread, unseen, yet ever nigh us, <br> Disquieting all the tenor of our days -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Dark Companion, Death, whose wide embraces <br> O'ertake remotest change of clime and skies -- <br>Oh, Dark Companion, Death, whose grievous traces <br> Are scattered shreds of riven enterprise -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, too, in this wise, when, our eyes unsealing, <br> The clearer day shall change our faith to sight, <br>Shalt show thyself, in that supreme revealing, <br> No Dark Companion, but a thing of light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No ruthless wrecker of harmonious order; <br> No alien heart of discord and caprice; <br>A beckoning light upon the Blissful Border; <br> A kindred element of law and peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, too, our strange unrest in this our dwelling, <br> The trembling that thou joinest with our mirth, <br>Are but thy magnet-communings compelling <br> Our spirits farther from the scope of earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, doubtless, when beneath thy potence swerving, <br> 'Tis that thou lead'st us by a path unknown, <br>Our seeming deviations all subserving <br> The perfect orbit round the central throne. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night wind moans. The Austral wilds are round me. <br> The loved who live -- ah, God! how few they are! <br>I looked above; and heaven in mercy found me <br> This parable of comfort in a star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Brunton+Stephens">James Brunton Stephens</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415738" data-title="The Dark Companion de James Brunton Stephens" data-description="There is an orb that mocked the lore of sages Long time with mystery of strange unrest; The steadfast law that rounds the starry ages Gave doubtful token of supreme behest. But they who knew the ways of God..."></div> </div> </div>
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